Android still 1st choice among virgin smartphone buyers
The iPhone may have passed over Android in total U.S. smartphone sales, but Google’s platform still has one key advantage: it’s attracting more mobile data newbies. According to the NPD Group, 57 percent of first-time smartphone buyers last quarter chose Android handsets.
Motorola wants 2.25 percent of Apple sales to license patents
The ongoing patent spat between Motorola and Apple has reached an interesting crossroads. Just recently a German court granted an injunction against sales of many of Apple's 3G-bearing products, including older model iPhones and the iPad. That injunct...
What Motorola wants: 2.25% of Apple’s iPhone sales revenue
A blogger uncovers the $2 billion dispute behind Friday's bizarre back and forth
Source: FOSS Patents
Apple (AAPL) watchers were shocked Friday when the company, in response to a court-ordered injunction, removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its online Apple Store in Germany.
The injunction was suspended before the end of the day -- and the products...
Refurbished Motorola Xooms came with private data from previous owners
Motorola facilitated the sale of a bunch of refurbished Xoom tablets with former owners' data still on them, the company announced in a press release Friday. The Xooms were part of a deal on flash sale site woot.com last...
Apple and Motorola scuffle over iCloud and push email
Motorola scored a victory against Apple today when it won a permanent injunction against the company's iCloud and MobileMe push email service. According to FOSS Patents, the injunction is "preliminarily enforceable," which means Motorola can enforce t...
iPhone, iPad injunction lifted in Germany, but Apple still faces iCloud action
Apple will be able to sell its iPad 2 with 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4 via its online store in Germany after all, thanks to a temporary extension courtesy of a German court. As...
Apple resumes sales of 3G iPhones and iPads in Germany
Earlier today, Apple was forced to remove the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (not the iPhone 4S), and all 3G iPads from its online store in Germany. This injunction was short-lived as Apple appealed and the German court suspended the ban. The company...
Apple Has Already Beat Motorola’s German Injunction Against iPhones And iPad Sales
You know that so-called “permanent injunction” Motorola got against Apple that resulted in Apple pulling all iPhones and iPads short of the iPhone 4S off their online store earlier today? Already overruled, and Germans can once again get their iPhone and iPad on. Slashgear...iPhone patent wars: What’s going on in Germany?
Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail
Yanked from the virtual shelves
It was a crazy day for Apple (AAPL) in Germany.
First it removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its German online store -- the first time, as far as we know, that the company has been forced...
iPhone patent wars: What’s going on in Germany?
Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail
Yanked from the virtual shelves
UPDATE: Sales of Apple's iPhones resumed Friday. See here.
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It was a crazy day for Apple (AAPL) in Germany.
First it removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its German online store -- the first time,...
Motorola deals Apple pair of upsets in German legal battle (updated)
On Friday, Motorola was granted a permanent injunction by a German court against a feature of Apple's iCloud. The same day Apple removed some older models of iPhones and iPads from its German online store due to enforcement of another patent held by Motorola.
